Then, the Scottish singer stepped away from her microphone and asked ‘can we do that again?’ after the blip – unaware that the programme was being broadcast live.

Appearing on the show to promote her album The Gift, SuBo was in the middle of O Holy Night when she began coughing, later attributing the slip-up to a ‘frog in her throat’.

When she didn’t resume the tune and instead stood motionless on the stage, The View presenters Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd rushed to her side, assuring her that her performance had been ‘amazing.’